Some questioned whether being told ‘you’re beautiful’ constituted as harassment while others called the footage ‘eye-opening’.

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EatHelloKitty wrote on YouTube: ‘How is men telling you to have a nice day and saying you’re beautiful harassment? The most vulgar thing that happened was a few yelling “DAMN!”.

‘What are they supposed to yell about, your personality or how smart you are? They don’t know you. All they have to go on is your looks in the seconds you walk by.

‘How about take it for what it is and gracefully accept the compliment as you keep walking. Acknowledging their words as flattery is not going dehumanise you. Don’t take it so seriously because I’m sure the moment you were out of sight they forgot all about it.’

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Another argued that anyone who didn’t think this was harassment was being ‘willfully ignorant’.

Mediumvillain wrote: ‘Uh, wtf don’t you get? She was silent specifically not to portray anything in any light, and to just show the unvarnished truth of what occurs on the street, unsolicited, to women. If you can’t understand why people shadowing, following, harassing a woman – mixed in regularly with the friendly greetings – then you’re being willfully ignorant.’

Hollaback is a non-profit agency which aims to end street harassment around the world.